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Serpent-handling pastor dies hours after he's bitten by a RATTLESNAKE..
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 30, 2012 | Thomas Durante

Posted on 05/30/2012 10:45:10 AM PDT by C19fan

A Pentecostal reverend known for preaching with the help of a rattlesnake coiled around his arm lost his life when one of the creatures suddenly bit him. Mack Randall Wolford, pastor at the Full Gospel Apostolic House of the Lord Jesus in Matoaka, West Virginia, died hours after receiving the deadly bite on Sunday - the day after his 44th birthday. Wolford’s father, who was also a serpent-handling pastor, died in the same way nearly 30 years ago.

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KEYWORDS: dumbass; snakes
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To: steve86

Cobra’s only stand up and flatten their neck when they feel threatened. Those so called snake charmers playing musical instrument makes the cobra sway...it is not the music, it feels threatened by the instrument swaying in front of it’s face.

I grew up in India and snakes indeed slithered in the house on occasion because we always had the doors open during day. But if you ignored them, they never attacked or bite. Very few snakes will attack humans unprovoked except the black mamba of Africa and one or two other rare species.

You are correct that if one steps accidentally on a snake it is going to bite you in reflex action. So one has to be very careful walking in brush known to be infested with snakes.

My father had a farm business and we have seen 15 foot long cobra’s in the fields. They are farmer’s friend because they keep rodent’s under check. So the snakes were left alone.


81 posted on 05/30/2012 7:43:37 PM PDT by entropy12 (Hate is the most insidious emotion, it will rot your gut more than anything else.)
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To: Borax Queen
Are you being naughty again?

Bad snake.......

82 posted on 05/30/2012 8:08:27 PM PDT by Lakeshark (NbIttoalbl,cRwIdtaa)
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To: C19fan; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

A man and a snake walk in a bar...


83 posted on 05/30/2012 8:13:27 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: BerryDingle

Is that a rattlesnake or a python????


84 posted on 05/30/2012 8:32:53 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Lakeshark
Whoops! I so am.... I thought that you were busting me about my Bush or Bloomberg-bashing... :0)
85 posted on 05/30/2012 8:33:35 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Revolting cat!
A man and a snake walk in a bar...

"OUCH!" *hssssssss*

86 posted on 05/30/2012 8:37:42 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Miss Behave

87 posted on 05/30/2012 8:44:43 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: C19fan

Rattlers don’t always inject a lot of venom, but when they really get pissed off at you they can dump a lethal dose.


88 posted on 05/31/2012 4:01:55 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: entropy12

If the rattle is wet you won’t hear a thing. They also break off, you may find a big rattler with nothing on it’s tail but a hard scale. All the rattles are is a collection of un shed tail scales. They don’t grow separately.


89 posted on 05/31/2012 4:06:45 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: samtheman
What did you shoot the rattlers with? A shotgun? Just curious. I imagine they aren’t that easy to hit if you don’t have a shotgun.

Yes, a 12 ga. auto. I gave up hunting a long tome ago, but I keep it handy and loaded as a crime stopper. I keep it loaded with 5 rounds 00 buck, and I don't have any birdshot. So, it's overkill, but very effective.
90 posted on 05/31/2012 4:34:49 AM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: ZX12R

Also, once they’re coiled up in defensive position, they can remain pretty still, for the most part, and I’d wager that you could take a .22 rifle and put one right through it’s head.


91 posted on 05/31/2012 4:38:28 AM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: firebrand

There were rattlesnakes in upstate New York when I grew up there 50 years ago - it’s definitely not a new phenomenon.


92 posted on 05/31/2012 5:08:13 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wouldn’t bet against you. I know a relation who “got out”. He has a few stories.


93 posted on 05/31/2012 6:53:19 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Jack Hammer

Rattlesnake.

94 posted on 05/31/2012 11:01:44 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Oh. Thanks!


95 posted on 05/31/2012 11:55:18 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Slings and Arrows
Awww. I wuv that! I miss my boo-boo kitty.

Thanks, Slings. :-)

96 posted on 05/31/2012 10:26:55 PM PDT by Miss Behave (All ways, always.)
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To: Miss Behave

You’re very welcome. Any excuse to post cute kitten pix is a good excuse.


97 posted on 05/31/2012 10:37:27 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: BerryDingle

You can’t fool me - that’s an anaconda!


98 posted on 06/01/2012 2:07:48 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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